Azure Security Concepts

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• Azure Concepts

Overview

Accessing Azure services require a set of credentials, including the subscription ID, Active Directory ID, region, management and storage credentials.

Subscription

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/guides/developer/azure-developer-guide#understanding-accounts-subscriptions-and-billing

A resource that ... Equivalent to AWS account. All resources in a subscription are billed together. A subscription is associated with an Active Directory instance.

Subscription ID

The subscription ID can be obtained with 'az account list'; it is reported as "id".

Subscription Name

The subscription name can be obtained with 'az account list'; it is reported as "name".

Service Principal

An OpenShift cluster running on Azure has an associated service principal.

CLI Login

Azure Security Operations | Login

Network Security Group

Azure Networking Concepts | Network Security Group